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IAF Report Quickly Dispels Rumors on Gaza Strike

(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff - An internal Israel Air Force report on Monday's missile strikes in Gaza was distributed Tuesday in response to claims that helicopters had deliberately fired missiles into a crowd of Palestinian civilians gathered near one of the targets: All the targets were targets belonging to terrorist organizations engaged in producing arms or organizing attacks. In the planning and execution, maximum efforts were made not to hurt uninvolved persons. Despite this, when fighting against terrorists who deliberately live among a civilian population, uninvolved persons are sometimes hurt. With respect to media reports of a missile that went astray and massive injury to uninvolved persons: All the munitions struck their targets exactly. In every attack, at the time the munitions were fired, neither the operational nor the video films showed any uninvolved persons. There was no firing of munitions into a crowd. Summary: Planned terror attacks were prevented and many armaments were assaulted. Maximum precautions were taken, in both planning and execution, to avoid harming uninvolved persons.
2003-10-24 00:00:00
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